Fourth Annual Full-Length Playwriting Competition
[download id="3"]The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in association with the Marigny Theatre Corporation and the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival announces a playwright's competition. The winning play from our fourth annual contest will be produced by the Marigny Theatre Corporation and will premier the weekend of the 8th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, May 13-16, 2010. Registration: There is a $10 fee for every play submitted. Participants can enter more then once. Click here to open and print the registration form in your browser. Note: you cannot complete this form online; you must print it and return the completed paper form with each of your submissions. This requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader version 3.0 or above. Prizes: The winning entry will receive complimentary registration to the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival and a stipend of $250. Finalists: The finalists' names and titles will be announced on the Saints and Sinners website. Dates: Deadline for submission is December 31st yearly. (Entries postmarked later than December 31st will not be c onsidered) The winner will be announced in March of the following year. Entry Fees: Participants can make more then one submission. There is a $10 entry fee per submission to cover administrative costs such as copying, postage, judging, etc. Contest Guidelines: Previously produced plays ...
Archangel Membership Program
A) DEVIL: $25 Recognition in the Festival program book B) SAINT: $75 Recognition in the Festival program book One Saints & Sinners Master Class ticket ($25 value) ...
First Annual Short Fiction Contest
The Saints and Sinners GLBT Literary Festivals First Annual Short Fiction Contest is soliciting original, unpublished short stories between 5,000 and 7,000 words with GLBT content on the broad theme of Saints and Sinners. The contest is open to authors at all stages of their careers and to stories in all genres. The entry fee is $10 per story with a 3 story limit per author. One grand prize of $250 and two second place prizes of $50 will be awarded. In addition, the top stories will be published in an anthology from QueerMojo, an imprint of Rebel Satori Press. There will also be a book release party held during the 8th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans May 13-16, 2010. The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts is January 2, 2010. [download id="2"]
Save the Date: May 13-16, 2010
The 2010 Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, May 13th -16th Michael Nava We've already begun to book an exciting program for the Festival, including literary luminaries Ann Bannon, Michael Nava, and Tim Miller. Michael Nava is the author of a seven-volume series of novels featuring a gay Latino criminal defense lawyer, Henry Rios. Published between 1988 and 2000, the Rios novels (The Little Death, Goldenboy, Howtown, The Hidden Law, The Death of Friends, The Burning Plain and Rag and Bone) earned six Lambda Literary awards and won widespread critical acclaim. In 2000, Nava was awarded the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in gay and lesbian literature. Currently, Nava is at work on a historical novel set in an Arizona border town during the Mexican Revolution called The Children of Eve. A graduate of Stanford Law School, he has also had a distinguished career as an appellate lawyer and is currently a staff attorney for the Honorable Carlos Moreno, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court in San Francisco. Ann Bannon Ann Bannon has been called "The Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction" for her landmark "Beebo Brinker Chronicles," a series of five original paperback novels published by Gold Medal Books in the ...
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Fiction and Playwriting Contest Finalists
Saints and Sinners is pleased to announce the finalists for our annual fiction and playwrighting contests. The winning play will be performed at the 2010 Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, and the winning story, along with other finalists, will be featured in an anthology available at the Festival.
Pitch Your Manuscript
Once again this year, Bold Strokes Books will be providing authors the opportunity to pitch their work to editors Radclyffe and Greg Herren. The pitch meetings will last for ten minutes and will take place Friday afternoon.
2010 Master Classes
We’ve lined up a whole krewe of literary greats for our Master Class series. Each will offer practical tips, inspiring insights, and a little lagniappe to take away. Here’s the list of all our Master Class offerings:
Writing Competitons
Fourth Annual Full-Length Playwriting Competition
The winning play from our fourth annual contest will be produced by the Marigny Theatre Corporation and will premier the weekend of the 8th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, May 13-16, 2010.
Fiction and Playwriting Contest Finalists
Saints and Sinners is pleased to announce the finalists for our annual fiction and playwrighting contests. The winning play will be performed at the 2010 Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, and the winning story, along with other finalists, will be featured in an anthology available at the Festival.
First Annual Short Fiction Contest
Soliciting original, unpublished short stories between 5,000 and 7,000 words with GLBT content.
More Writing Competitons
Awards
Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame
Since 2003, Saints and Sinners has inducted these recipients into our Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame in recognition of their contributions to the GLBT literary community.
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2010 Speakers
Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper has written two collections of memoirs, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum, as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes, and a collection of short stories, Guess Again. His work has appeared in Story, Ploughshares, Harper’s, The Paris Review, and The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of The | Read More →
Jim Grimsley
Jim Grimsley is an award winning playwright and author. His literary fiction includes such novels as My Drowning, Winter Birds, Dream Boy, and Comfort and Joy; his fantasy fiction includes the award winning novels Kirith Kirin and The Ordinary.
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Call or email Event Organizer Paul J. Willis with questions and concerns:
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About the Festival
The Festival, held over 4 days each Spring, features panel discussions and master classes on literary topics that provide a forum for authors, editors and publishers to talk about their work for the benefit of emerging writers and the enjoyment of fans of LGBT literature.
